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Halfpint Range
The Halfpint Range is a low arcuate mountain range in eastern Nye County, Nevada, Nye County and extending into southwest Lincoln County, Nevada, Lincoln County, Nevada.''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, Eighth Ed. 2012, p. 65, ''Indian Springs, Nevada,'' 1988 and ''Pahranagat Range, Nevada,'' 1985 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS The western portion of the range lies within the Nevada Test Site. Yucca Flat and Plutonium Valley lie to west and Frenchman Flat to the south. The Buried Hills, the Papoose Range and Papoose Lake lie to the east. French Peak () is at the south end and Banded Mountain () lies at the north end of the range. References Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada {{NyeCountyNV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nye County, Nevada
Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behind Coconino County of Arizona and San Bernardino County of California. Nye County comprises the Pahrump Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Las Vegas-Henderson Combined Statistical Area. In 2010, Nevada's center of population was in southern Nye County, near Yucca Mountain. The Nevada Test Site and proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are in southwestern Nye County, and are the focus of a great deal of controversy. The federal government manages 92% of the county's land. A 1987 attempt to stop the nuclear waste site resulted in the creation of Bullfrog County, Nevada, which was dissolved two years later. The county has several environmentally sensitive areas, including Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
